As the year draws to a close, the Yale School of Music ushers in a series of exhilarating performances, showcasing the diverse talents of its distinguished faculty and students. From classical chamber music to innovative improvisations, these events highlight the rich tapestry of musical artistry at Yale. The following events promise to captivate audiences with their unique blend of tradition, innovation, and seasonal celebration, featuring performances by renowned musicians and promising young artists across iconic venues in Yale and beyond.

Harmonies of Yale: An Extravaganza of Music and Culture

All are welcome to join us for a concert of organ music by Martin Jean performed on Yale’s Newberry Organ. The concert is part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series.  Martin Jean is a professor of organ and the director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

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Great Organ Music at Yale with Martin Jean

Yale University

Free admission, no registration required



Benjamin Verdery, guitar

Members of the Yale Voxtet are students of Professor James Taylor and are candidates for graduate degrees in voice. The select group of eight singers specializes in early music, oratorio, and chamber ensemble. In addition to performing a variety of chamber music programs each year, the group sings, tours, and records as part of Yale Schola Cantorum.

Yale Voxtet: Latin Vespers

Dwight Chapel

A performance by the School’s student cellists, directed by Ole Akahoshi.

Program to be announced. Check back soon for more information.


Yale Cellos

Experience new and exciting orchestral works by tomorrow's leading composers, performed by the Yale Philharmonia and led by conductors Stefano Boccacci '25MMA and Ezra Calvino '26MMA.

New Music for Orchestra

School of Music students perform a midday chamber music concert.

Full programs can be viewed about 24 hours in advance at issuu.com/yalemusic.

Lunchtime Chamber Music

School of Music students perform a concert of chamber music and provide insight into the repertoire.

Vista: Chamber Music

Students from the studio of Associate Professor Adjunct of Guitar Benjamin Verdery perform a program of guitar chamber music.

Guitar Chamber Music

A performance by students from faculty tubist Carol Jantsch’s studio.

Program to be announced. Check back soon for more information.


Tuba Studio Recital

William L. Harkness Hall

In the Organ Improv Showcase, ISM students in Jeffrey Brillhart’s organ improvisation course riff on given themes. The audience will hear improvised preludes and fugues, improvisations on seasonal texts and art works, and much more.

Organ Improv Showcase

Not to be missed, Yale's annual Advent concert, as performed by Yale Camerata and conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, will be infused with the sounds of France and is entitled Joyeux Noël. The concert will highlight French music and composers and will culminate with a performance of Francis Poulenc’s Gloria.  The concert will provide opportunities for audience participation throughout.  We hope to see you there, and on behalf of Dr. Barber, Yale Camerata, and our entire community, "Nous vous souhaitons de joyeuses fêtes de fin d'année" simply said, "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

Yale Camerata Advent Concert: Joyeux Noël

“Everyone has a Christmas album, but this one, for sure, is distinctive, different, and delightful. And a worthy successor to Ellington and Strayhorn.” — Richard J Salvucci, All About Jazz

Pan-American Nutcracker: Latin Jazz for the Holidays

School of Music bassoonists perform a program of all-bassoon chamber music titled The Bassoonarama You Can't Refuse: Wolfgang Meets The Godfather, directed by Associate Professor Adjunct of Music Frank Morelli. The performance will include music by Mozart, excerpts from Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and excerpts from Nino Rota's The Godfather.


The Bassoonarama You Can't Refuse: Wolfgang Meets The Godfather

Pianist and Dean of Yale School of Music José García-León, violinist Tai Murray, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, double bassist Chelsea Strayer, and clarinetist David Shifrin are joined by the Yale Voxtet and the Callisto Quartet, Yale School of Music’s 2022-2024 fellowship quartet-in-residence. The program features music by Chausson, Pulitzer-prize winning faculty composer David Lang, and Yale composers Charles Ives and Quincy Porter

Generations of Music at Yale

Carnegie Hall

School of Music students perform a midday chamber music concert.

A performance by the School’s faculty.


YSM Faculty

A performance of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, using a critical edition created by Yale School of Music Professor Emeritus of Music Paul Hawkshaw.

Peter Oundjian, principal conductor

A recital by the Professor of Piano who the Los Angeles Times has said performs with “a measurable virtuoso bent and considerable musical sensitivity.”

Robert Blocker, piano

The acclaimed ensemble, whose music-making The New York Times has called “positively breathtaking,” includes YSM Visiting Associate Professor of Trumpet Kevin Cobb and trombonist and YSM alum Hillary Simms ’18MM.

American Brass Quintet

The ensemble performs Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony under the baton of guest conductor Rune Bergmann, who “makes the orchestra play with joy and fire” (Crescendo, Munich).

Rune Bergmann, guest conductor

The School’s Sylvia and Leonard Marx Professor in the Practice of Piano is “capable of generating electrical excitement,” the Los Angeles Times has said.

Boris Berman, piano

A performance by the School’s faculty quartet-in-residence, whose music-making The Independent (London) has described as “passionate, uninhibited and spell-binding.”

Brentano String Quartet

A recital by the musician, who The New York Times has said can deliver “a muscular and virtuosic performance.”

Ran Dank, piano

From ORLANDO DI LASSO, BACH, and BEETHOVEN to AYANNA WOODS and REENA ESMAIL, the Festival’s 2024 season finale features a riveting program of choral works from the Renaissance to the 21st Century performed by a stellar chamber choir and orchestra.

Season Finale | Choral Festival

Yale School of Music

Programs and artists are subject to change without notice. The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival follows all health and safety protocols required by Yale University.

Concerto Night!

This program is dedicated to composers who also had other jobs. Ives was an insurance executive whose work laid the groundwork for the field of estate planning. Borodin was a noted chemist who made some important discoveries in organic chemistry. And Philip Glass made ends meet in the 1970s as a taxi driver.

Charles Ives & the American Tradition: Composers with a Side Hustle

Parker Quartet

Meet the Mendelssohns

Dover Quartet

The 2024 Festival Gala will feature the GRAMMY® Award-winning Imani Winds presenting:

BLACK AND BROWN II: A Celebration of Composers of Color with
PAQUITO D’RIVERA’s Aires Tropicales, DAMIEN GETER’S I Said What I Said CARLOS SIMON’s Giants & more!

Special Event Imani Winds

American classical music has long been indebted to the European tradition. This concert features European composers that had major influence on the American music scene.

Antonín Dvorák lived was the head of the first music conservatory in the United States, encouraging American composers to use folk music to create a national style. Ernst Bloch was the president of Cleveland Institute of Music and San Francisco Conservatory, while composing his distinctive music. Amy Beach, the lone American composer on the program, was educated in the European tradition while studying at the New England Conservatory

Charles Ives & the American Tradition: European Influences on America

Brentano Quartet

Ives, like the other composers on this program, used the folk music of his local region in his compositions. You’ll hear Ives’ use of the hymn in his fourth violin sonata, Boccherini’s use of Spanish folk songs, Bartók’s use of Hungarian folk tunes, and Brahms’s use of Romani music.

Charles Ives & the American Tradition: Folk Inspirations

Brentano Quartet and Rieko Aizawa

Despite a reputation as a musical maverick, Ives had tastes that one might consider conservative. He was a big fan of Beethoven and Franck, but had a distaste for the important modernist composer Edgard Varèse.

Charles Ives & the American Tradition: Ives: Likes & Dislikes

All are welcome to join a progressive organ recital presented by students of the 2024 Yale Organ Academy. The recital will begin in United Church on the Green (270 Temple St.) at 7:30 p.m. and then progress on to Woolsey Hall (500 College). This is an opportunity to support the students of the Yale Organ Academy in a public recital showcasing their work during the Academy.

Yale Organ Academy Presents: A Progressive Organ Recital with Students of the Yale Organ Academy

New Haven Green

Concertgoers must observe Yale University's COVID-19 protocols. Please visit music.yale.edu/policies throughout the season for updates.

A Progressive Organ Recital with Visiting Faculty

YSM Commencement Concert

A concert featuring performances by the winners of the School's annual chamber music competition.

Chamber Music Competition Winners

A performance by students from faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery’s studio.

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music will hold an ecumenical hymn festival in Woolsey Hall on May 5, 2024, at 4 p.m. A community choir of 300 voices will sing hymns around the theme “All Creation Sings,” celebrating the diversity of our creation and our duty as faithful people to care for it. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the choir will have Yale Camerata at its core and will be accompanied by brass ensemble, gospel instrumentalists, and organists Dr. Nathaniel Gumbs and Dr. Bruce Neswick. Drs. Barbara Brown Taylor and James Forbes will be the special guest preachers.

All Creation Sings: ISM's 50th Anniversary Hymn Festival

Yale Opera presents a fully-staged double-bill production featuring Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, performed with piano.

Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi & Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins

Johann Sebastian Bach’s B Minor Mass has been hailed as the “greatest artwork of all times and all people;” it has been performed in churches and concert halls; and the number of recordings on records, CDs, and on streaming services is breathtaking.

Symposium: "Bach's B Minor Mass in Context"

The Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach is considered an all-embracing musical masterpiece created by Bach at the pinnacle of his remarkable career. Beginning with the awe-inspiring Kyrie and ending with the jubilant Dona nobis pacem, there are nine completely unique arias and duets, fourteen impressive ensemble sections for four, five, six, and even eight voices, a broad spectrum of instrumental solos, and an incredible variety of styles.

Bach's Mass in B Minor

The Yale Philharmonia, led by Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian, closes its season with a performance of Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with mezzo-soprano Kara Morgan '24MMA, and Richard Strauss’ monumental tone poem An Alpine Symphony.

Peter Oundjian, conductor

A performance by the School’s student cellists, directed by Ole Akahoshi.

A performance of music by faculty composers Martin Bresnick, who creates "music that seems at once ancient, elegiac and awesomely new" (The New York Times), and works by the School’s composition students.

Martin Bresnick, faculty composer

A performance by violinist Augustin Hadelich, an artist The Washington Post has said is capable of “revealing something from a plane beyond ours,” performs music by Amy Beach, Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Ysaÿe with pianist Orion Weiss.

Augustin Hadelich, violin

Yale Repertory Chorus Recital

The orchestra, led by Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian, performs Mozart’s Thirty-Fifth Symphony, the "Haffner," Martinu’s Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra with soloist Brian Isaacs '22BA '23MM, and Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, the "Pathétique."

Lunchtime Chamber Music - April

with Yale Glee Club, Yale Camerata, and Elm City Girls' Choir

YSO Concert 4

Amber Wang, horn

Emma Meinrenken, violin

Anjali Pillai, bassoon

Miranda Werner, violin

Daniel Espinal, tenor

Professor in the Practice of Piano Boris Slutsky, who The Baltimore Sun has said plays "with intelligence, imagination and a sense of poetry," and Eric Zuber, whose playing the Cleveland Plain Dealer has said is marked by "interpretive finesse and intensity," perform a two-piano program featuring Rachmaninoff’s Piano Suites and Symphonic Dances in celebration of the composer’s 150th birthday.

Boris Slutsky, piano & Eric Zuber, piano

Collin Miller, organ

On March 9 we will celebrate our 50th birthday by revisiting our very first “Yale Theatre Orchestra” concert from 1974, an all-Ives extravaganza that was so successful that within two weeks we recorded the whole affair for CBS Records (now Sony).

50th Birthday Concert

Finn Sagal, bass

The Yale Voxtet presents a concert of 16th and 17th century music from Germany and Italy, featuring works by Verdelot, Tromboncino, Isaac, Senfl, Hassler, Krieger, Hammerschmidt, Rossi, Caccini, d’India, and Strozzi. The event also features special guests Bettina Pahn and Joachim Held.

Italia und Germania: Two Worlds of Musical Expression

Yale Divinity School

Jini Baik, oboe

Yun Chai Lee, harp

Wilhelm Magner, viola

A performance of compositions by guest composer David Sanford, whose music "transcends standard genre boundaries" (Gramophone), works by the School’s composition students, and more.

David Sanford, guest composer

Alexander Straus-Fausto, organ

The celebrated period-instrument ensemble, led by guest director Aisslinn Nosky, performs a program called "Passions Revealed" featuring music by J.S. Bach, J.F. Fasch, Locatelli, Marais, Mondonville, Telemann, and Vivaldi.

Tafelmusik

Free admission, no registration required


Ettore Causa, viola and Boris Berman piano

A performance of music by Beethoven and Janácek by a group The New York Times has called “one of the world’s greatest string quartets.”

Takács Quartet

Professor in the Practice of Violin Augustin Hadelich, who The New York Times has said is “technically dazzling,” joins Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian and the orchestra for a performance of Britten’s Violin Concerto on a program that also includes Berlioz’s wildly imaginative Symphonie Fantastique.

Peter Oundjian, principal conductor & Augustin Hadelich, violin

Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and led by interim conductor Stefan Parkman. Masaaki Suzuki is the ensemble’s principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a special interest in historically informed performance practice, often in collaboration with instrumentalists from Juilliard415.

Yale Schola Cantorum presents: Consolation and Confidence

Daniel S Lee, baroque violin & Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord

Faculty violinist Augustin Hadelich, who The New York Times has said is “technically dazzling,” joins the orchestra and its principal conductor for a performance of Britten’s Violin Concerto on a program that also includes a new work by Joan Tower and Berlioz’s wildly imaginative Symphonie fantastique.

Yale in New York - Yale Phiharmonia

A performance by “a pianist with comprehensive skills who can seemingly play anything” (The New York Times).

Yefim Bronfman, piano

Bassist, composer, vocalist, and citizen of Odanak First Nation (Abenaki) Mali Obomsawin, whose music JazzTimes has said “not only works as potent commentary on Indigenous heritage, autonomy and experiences, but as gripping, dynamic, and thunderous music in and of itself,” appears with her X-tet in a performance of her shoegaze-style work.

Mali Obomsawin

Wendy Sharp and Friends

The School’s faculty quartet-in-residence unearths “startling musical revelations” (The Guardian, London).

A performance of works by guest composer Hannah Kendall, whose music The Seattle Times has called “boldly individual, exquisitely crafted,” and the School’s composition students.

Hannah Kendall, guest composer

An immersion in all things guitar, including performances, workshops, demonstrations, and more.

Free admission, no registration required. Seating is General Admission.

Guitar Extravaganza

A recital by the Professor in the Practice of Piano whose playing the Hartford Courant has described as “spontaneous, yet logical, lyrical and technical.


Wei-Yi Yang, piano

Yale Opera presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s romantic fairy tale Iolanta. Metropolitan Opera conductor J. David Jackson leads the Yale Philharmonia and an exciting young cast in this lush opera about the transformative power of love.

Yale Opera presents Iolanta

Boch Center

Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415, conducted by Schola's principal guest conductor Masaaki Suzuki, perform at New York City's Alice Tully Hall.

Yale Schola Cantorum in New York City : Klagt, Kinder – Köthener Trauermusik

Lincoln Center

A performance in the School’s intimate Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall led by conductor Stefano Boccacci ’25MMA.

Stefano Boccacci, conductor

All are welcome to attend a performance of Schola Cantorum with Juilliard415, conducted by Schola's principal guest conductor Masaaki Suzuki.

Yale Schola Cantorum presents: Klagt, Kinder – Köthener Trauermusik

The Professor in the Practice of Piano, who can deliver a “precise rendering” (The New York Times) of the repertoire, appears in recital.

Melvin Chen, piano

A performance by the School’s student percussionists, directed by Robert van Sice.

Program to be announced. Check back soon for more information.

Yale Percussion Group

A performance by the School’s Fellowship String Quartet, the Terra String Quartet, a group that in 2022 won the grand prize at the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

Program to be announced. Check back soon for more information.

Terra String Quartet, Fellowship Quartet-In-Residence

A performance of music by Liliya Ugay ’16MM ’22DMA, whose work The Washington Post has said features “washes of evocative cinematic color,” and the School’s composition students.

Liliya Ugay, guest composer

All are welcome to join us for a concert of organ music by guest artist Jonathan Moyer performed on the Krigbaum Organ in Marquand Chapel. The concert is part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series.

Great Organ Music at Yale with Jonathan Moyer

Marquand Chapel

A performance of music by Mozart, Schubert, and Webern by the ensemble that offers “exactingly detailed playing combined with impeccable balance and unanimity” (The New York Times).

Tetzlaff Quartet

The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars and the Mingus Big Band, which includes Yale Jazz Ensembles Director, YSM Lecturer in Jazz, and Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, perform in celebration of the life, work, and legacy of YSM Professor Emeritus of Music Willie Ruff.

Willie Ruff Memorial Concert

Tai Murray, violin

The clarinetist, violist, and pianist perform music by Bizet, Brahms, Dvorák, and a “dance mosaic” of European folk tunes.

Martin Fröst, Antoine Tamestit & Shai Wosner

A performance led by Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian, whom Fanfare has hailed as “a world class conductor.”

David Shifrin, clarinet

Join Yale Camerata for its Perspectives Concert, highlighting music of diverse languages and composers. Featuring performances of works by Robles, Zhao, Woods, Esmail, Thompson, and others.

Yale Camerata Perspectives Concert

The spring Yale Repertory Chorus Recital will feature choral conducting performances by ISM student conductors Kevin Vondrak, Caspar Wein and Hyunju Yang.

A performance by the pianist The Washington Post has said can convey “uncommonly deep poetry out of the music.”

Dénes Várjon, piano

A performance of music by faculty composer Aaron Jay Kernis, who Fanfare has said “remains at the top of the profession,” faculty composer Christopher Theofanidis, whom The Baltimore Sun has described as “an unusually skilled, communicative composer,” and the School’s composition students.

Aaron Jay Kernis and Christopher Theofanidis, faculty composers

A performance by the School’s student cellists, directed by Ole Akahoshi.

Program to be announced. Check back soon for more information.

Yale Opera presents a fully staged double-bill production of Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Massenet’s La Navarraise, performed with piano.

YOP Spring Production

Yale Schola Cantorum's interim conductor Stefan Parkman leads the ensemble in a program of Nordic and Baltic composers in Schola's final concert of the season.

Yale Schola Cantorum presents: Northern Lights

A performance by the winners of the School’s annual chamber music competition.

A performance by the fhe faculty pianist who the Los Angeles Times has said is “capable of generating electrical excitement.”

Guest conductor Jonathon Heyward, whom KDHX (St. Louis) has described as “a genius that will illuminate concert halls for decades to come,” leads the ensemble in a performance of Schumann’s Fourth Symphony.

Jonathon Heyward, guest conductor

A performance by the Terra Quartet, YSM’s 2024-2025 fellowship quartet-in-residence—an ensemble Third Coast Review has said has “a great future ahead of them”—and the winners of the School’s annual chamber music competition.

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Jan 9, 2025

Ettore Causa, viola and Boris Berman piano

Jan 21, 2025

Takács Quartet

Jan 22, 2025

Peter Oundjian, principal conductor & Augustin Hadelich, violin

Jan 25, 2025

Yale Schola Cantorum presents: Consolation and Confidence

Jan 26, 2025

Daniel S Lee, baroque violin & Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord

Dec 15, 2024

Great Organ Music at Yale with Martin Jean

Dec 15, 2024

Benjamin Verdery, guitar

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